This painting began in a horizontal format. It was one of three large canvases developed together in the studio. The horizontal version was alive but uncertain. Wide and expansive, it moved across the canvas in a way that felt more like landscape than anything else — which makes sense, because that's what it was. A view across, not a view through. Then I turned it to a portrait format, and everything changed. Light gathered at the top. The dense green and blue settled below. The painting became interior, vertical, and still — the feeling of standing inside something vast: forest, nave, a space where light arrives from above and the air goes quiet.
This painting began in a horizontal format. It was one of three large canvases developed together in the studio. The horizontal version was alive but uncertain. Wide and expansive, it moved across the canvas in a way that felt more like landscape than anything else — which makes sense, because that's what it was. A view across, not a view through. Then I turned it to a portrait format, and everything changed. Light gathered at the top. The dense green and blue settled below. The painting became interior, vertical, and still — the feeling of standing inside something vast: forest, nave, a space where light arrives from above and the air goes quiet.